Microbial contamination and tissue procurement location: A conventional operating room is not mandatory. An observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Standard operating rooms (SOR) are assumed to be the best place to prevent microbial contamination when performing tissue procurement. However, mobilizing an operating room is time and cost consuming if no organ retrieval is performed. In such case, non-operating dedicated rooms (NODR) are usually recommended by European guidelines for tissue harvesting. Performing the tissue retrieval in the Intensive care unit (ICU) when possible might be considered as it allows a faster and simpler procedure.

Objective

Our primary objective was to study the relationship between the risk of microbial contamination and the location (ICU, SOR or NODR) of the tissue retrieval in heart-beating and non-heart-beating deceased donors.

Materials and method

We retrospectively revi

SUBMITTER: Louart B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324794 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature